Source Evaluation Police Brutality

Source Evaluation
Police brutality has been a continuously debated topic for decades, between the American people and law enforcement. In recent years, the controversy of police misconduct lead to countless publications of books, articles, newspapers, and well-known online sites that discuss the issue on hand in America. Being an arguable topic for decades, there are sources about the controversy that are entitled with bias. With that being said, it's crucial when researching for sources that it must state viable facts and can be properly evaluated under certain criteria, rather than articles that feeds overwhelming bias of information to the audience. Three sources that were used for this evaluation can include a newspaper article, one online
The reason is that the journal is full of reliable facts that describes the controversy. For example, in the article, a whole page was devoted of facts about the origin of police brutality such as civil war and war on drugs. For an example, After the civil war, the law of “Black Codes” was passed by the southern state in 1865 and 1866. It was a law that restricted African Americans freedom and were force to work on low wages. She says, “Police generated enough arrests for violating Black codes that the number of Black inmates in southern prisons skyrocketed” (Cooper 2). Unlike the article or Ted Talk, it is important to know the key factor of where the controversy originated from and how it started. In addition, the author gave a lot more scientifically facts with references to back them. Hannah mentioned about the impact of stop and frisk, between 2002 and 2014, 5 million new yokes were stopped and frisked and out of those 5 million people, between 82% and 90% has committed no crime. Police officers used Stop and frisk by racial profiling (psychological violence) and it disproportionately aimed against minorities (Cooper 4). Hannah also stayed unbiased, not by giving fully argument and counterargument but simply not giving any opinions giving the source a value credibility. Therefore, unlike the article or Ted Talk,
Melvin’s Ted Talk brought up the topic of police brutality in his video which was easy to understand, but never gave examples of whom it was affected by and targeted against making him favor the police causing it to be biased. He agrees the brutality is happening in America, but doesn’t go into much detailed information of how it’s happening and never spoke about the origin of it either. However, Shaun’s article is ease to read and has credible facts of police brutality being present in America, but no background information about the subject. Shaun, being part of the Black Lives Matter movement show a bias against the police, this makes the source not reliable. Unlike the Ted Talk video and Shaun’s article, Hannah’s journal article states valid facts, background/origin information about the controversy, easy for anyone to read, and staying unbiased on top of it. Of three sources encountered, one might see a valuable source to research about of police brutality, “War on Drugs Policing and Polices Brutality”, by Hannah Cooper to be the most viable source for the